But what I hear, especially on those songs where Keys' strong piano playing is featured, is the kind of Top 40 gospel-pop pioneered by the late Laura Nyro, a classically trained teen prodigy from ...

In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns. Eddie Hixson, who has ...